OK, so I’m not one to toot my own horn. I don’t like to be the center of attention. It makes me sweaty. Any time in my life that I have accomplished anything or have been awarded with something, walking closely along with the pride and excitement there has always been an unnerving fear of stares and judgement. Thankfully I haven’t won too many awards in my lifetime. (Certainly if awards were being given out based on ‘keeping up with your blog’ I would be going home empty-handed… I get it peeps, I haven’t posted in over a month…. but I digress.)
Even with this sense of discomfort when faced with compliments, I have got to share what has been happening to me lately! No joke, in the last 2 weeks, I have had more “You look great[s],” “That (fill in the blank piece of clothing) is fabulous on you!” and “You just look so happy[s]” than I think I have heard in my whole life! I don’t know if some memo was passed around work that instructed my coworkers to randomly compliment me on different days of the week or what, but by the end of this week any time someone would say something kind to me I would break out in a fit of giggles. It has truly been the best couple weeks ever. It even got to the point that in the span of 5 minutes at the end of one school day last week, I got 3 compliments almost back to back. My friend Hannah and I just looked at each other and slightly exacerbated, she exclaimed “She got a spray tan, ya know!” as if the color of my skin was magically pulling the good wishes out of people.
The only physical thing I can possibly attribute this verbal stream of happiness to really is the spray tan that I got for my sleeveless Halloween costume. But I’d like to think that it is the glow coming from the inside of me, not the outside, that people are responding to!
